Theresa May is giving herself the power to identify confidential media sources and journalists are furious

UK Home Secretary Theresa May was explaining the
new Draft
Investigatory Powers Bill to MPs in Parliament on
Wednesday afternoon when she let slip that if the bill becomes
law, she will be able to identify journalists’ sources
without getting authorisation from a judge.

She outlined the new method that will make it possible for her to
sign off on a warrant for a journalist's source to be identified.

"There will be an urgent process, so it will be possible for a
Secretary of State to sign an urgent warrant for it to come
immediately into effect, and then there will be a period of time
within which the judge will have to review that and then make a
decision as to whether it should continue or not."

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Journalists are furious that a politician wants to grant
themselves the power to snoop on sources. The news editor one of
the UK's biggest online media organisations told Business
Insider:

Despite the abuse of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act,
which was used by the Metropolitan Police to access journalists'
telephone records, we are now expected to just hope that these
new powers will be used appropriately. It gives politicians an
unprecedented ability to identify sources, the protection of
which should be one of the fundamental rights of a free press.

Journalists are very serious about keeping their sources
confidential and will interpret Theresa May's plans as an attack
on the free press. It's likely that May will face heavy
criticism over the issue in the papers.